Reproductive health providers are asking a Florida court to block a new law from taking effect this week that would restrict abortions after 15 weeks.
Reproductive health providers are asking a Florida court to block a new state law from taking effect this week that would restrict abortions after 15 weeks, arguing the state constitution guarantees a broad right to privacy on matters including abortion.
Planned Parenthood, a pro-abortion rights group, said it has been getting lots of phone calls and people are already traveling to Florida from states that no longer offer abortions. eproductive health providers are asking a Florida court to block a new state law from taking effect this week that would restrict abortions after 15 weeks, arguing the state constitution guarantees a broad right to privacy on matters including abortion.
In Leon County, the ACLU has filed an injunction against the 15-week deadline for an abortion based on the Florida Constitution, stating a person has a “right to privacy” and “to be left alone.”Florida voters in 1980 amended the state constitution to guarantee a broad right of privacy, which includes the right to abortion, the abortion providers said in court papers.